14. A woman's employment shall, notwithstanding the change of employer, be treated as continuous employment with the second employer where—
(a)the employer's trade or business or an undertaking (whether or not it is an undertaking established by or under an Act of Parliament) is transferred from one person to another;
(b)by or under an Act of Parliament, whether public or local and whenever passed, a contract of employment between any body corporate and the woman is modified and some other body corporate is substituted as her employer;
(c)on the death of her employer, the woman is taken into the employment of the personal representatives or trustees of the deceased;
(d)the woman is employed by partners, personal representatives or trustees and there is a change in the partners, or, as the case may be, personal representatives or trustees;
(e)the woman is taken into the employment of an employer who is, at the time she entered his employment, an associated employer of her previous employer, and for this purpose “associated employer” shall be construed in accordance with section 153(4) of the 1978 Act;
(f)on the termination of her employment with an employer she is taken into the employment of another employer and [F1those employers are the governors of a school maintained by a local education authority and that authority].
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 14(f) substituted (6.4.1990) by The Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/622), regs. 1, 3